The All-Time King-Daddy Firestarter of the Culture Wars and Texas

They’re having a romping, stomping, Texas-sized fight down in Austin, all over efforts to pass a bill that would, among other things, ensure that abortion clinics abide by the same regulations as other out-patient surgical facilities.

How fey.

And how typical.

This is how Dr Kermit Gosnell came to be the monster that pro choice built. Fanatic nuts on the pro abortion side of the abortion debate will not abide any, and I mean any regulations of abortion clinics.

Nothing brings out the crazies like abortion. It is the all-time king-daddy firestarter of the culture wars. If you want to be called every dehumanizing ugly name in the book, just have an opinion, either way, on the issue of abortion.

Part of me is sooooo glad that it’s Texas, and not Oklahoma legislators who have their footsies in this fire. The other part of me would kind of like to get into the fight. I always hate these things, and I also always really get into them. I know. Makes me crazy. But if I wasn’t a little bit crazy, would I have voluntarily served what is now 18 years in public office? Gotta be something a little bit unusual about a person who would do that.

I wish my pro life brothers and sisters in Texas good luck and God speed. I hope they don’t get weak and run away from the fight. They need to stand strong and get the job done.

In the meantime, I ran across this two-part video of a speech Gianna Jessen made in Australia. Ms Jessen is that rarest of all people; an abortion survivor who was not subsequently killed by the abortion doc.

I think we need to hear what she has to say to refocus ourselves on what is at stake when we talk about abortion.

Gianna Jessen, Part 1

Gianna Jessen, Part 2

For more information on the doings in Austin, check out The Deacon’s Bench by Deacon Greg Kandra.